BIOKate Leslie is an award-winning playwright turned screenwriter. Her play ‘The Love Code’ won the National Partners of the American Theatre Award and the David L. Shelton Award in 2019. Kate is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America and completed her MFA in Playwriting in 2022 from The Playwrights’ Lab at Hollins University.
In 2023, Kate was a Semifinalist in The Script Lab’s Free Screenplay Contest and a Quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition. Kate’s play ‘Shadow of the Son’ received its world premiere in 2024. Kate grew up in Oxford, Mississippi and enjoys interesting characters from the American South. As a former middle school teacher and Chicago store-front theatre director, Kate possesses the resourcefulness to utilize a shoestring budget and an excess of cardboard to create magical and theatrical experiences. You can find her plays on The New Play Exchange (newplayexchange.org). |